Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Candidate Willkie saying that: "Every man and woman in America must be protected in his or her constitutional right of free choice in joining or not joining a union," and what seemed like a reply by Franklin Roosevelt: ". . . We shall hold steadfastly to every advance gained and not permit present safeguards to be whittled away by yielding to the specious arguments of those whose lip service to labor is loud and eloquent before election, but whose ears are deaf to all appeals to justice the rest of the time...
Well-informed friends guessed that Jesse Jones would keep his place as official U. S. moneylender, and take the Cabinet post too. Early this week word sprang from the White House that the President would ask for a Congressional joint resolution to permit the exceptional Mr. Jones to hold two Federal jobs. But his salary would not exceed the $15,000 a year a Cabinet member gets. Mr. Jones is many times a millionaire. His present wage as Loan Administrator...
...music for Quezon's dips and turns, last week it was apparent that Quezon had begun to dance still more exotic steps. Imperious boss of the Islands but still subject to their U. S.-made laws, Quezon has proposed an amendment to the Tydings-McDuffie Act which would permit him to run for a second term as President of the Commonwealth, then let a chosen subordinate hold the office until he can run again in 1945 and become the first President of the new sovereign State. The Filipinos approved the amendment in a plebiscite. Mr. Roosevelt's signature...
...Laeken Palace, still a national hero because he foresaw the approaching debacle and acted in time to save countless Belgian lives. Discredited because it fled at the moment of crisis, the refugee Government of Hubert Pierlot (still in Vichy) prepared its resignation last week, hoped the Nazis would permit its members to return as ordinary refugees. In Brussels pro-German Henri de Man, onetime Minister of Finance and President of the Belgian Labor Party, was rated as the Belgian equivalent of Pierre Laval in France. Leon Degrelle, flashy Führer of the Belgian Rexist (fascist) Party, was released from...
...election scandals. Although his show had not yet opened, the Government promptly closed the Folies Bergere Theatre where Cantinflas holds forth. Protesting the ban as a violation of his civil liberties, Cantinflas spoke softly but sternly to a couple of officials, soon persuaded them that his followers would not permit the Government to gag him. The Folies Bergere reopened, with Cantinflas joyously needling the Government more sharply than ever. Last week, playing two shows daily, Cantinflas included in his revue a satire on the new Federal deputies, due to open their legislature session on Sept. 1. Final instructions he receives...